stories of radical feminism
past, present, future
Cleaning the Room
Scatter-brained last night, And astride a dragon, I hoped to never think of cleaning the room, Only take note of the two crows fighting and
Cooking as means of Remembering and Recording: Visuals from a Bangaal kitchen
I have heard that my great grandparents’ house in Jhinaidah, Khulna, Bangladesh, was in a quaint neighbourhood nestled within taro gardens and betel leaves. But
From Body To Paper: How and Why Godna
“गोदना पेंटिगं से पहले गोदना जानो, ये हम सब का गहना है, सब पीछे छूट जाएगा, बस ये ही साथ ले जाएंगे हम” [Before knowing
You owe me hope, I owe you rage
I carry rage when I am told “learn to take a joke, woman”. “Oh, please do not behave like those liberal elite feminists, because I
Ode to the Woman Who Persisted
My life took a deadly beautiful turn to cross paths with Arundhati Roy, and I haven’t come across anything more dangerous or satisfying since. She
‘All the Things I Am’, and ‘Journey of a Poem’
All the Things I Am I am the criminal, Covering her evidences of old age on her head, with henna. I am the colour of
Exploring Memoirs by South Asian Women
A dialogue from one of my favorite movies goes like this, “We forget things if we have no one to tell them to.” As much as
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Writing Women is a seed bank. Every story of radical feminism from our past and present is a seed that powers our imagination for the future. We seek to fill these pages with seeds of writings, oral tales, songs, poems and art that reveal resistance, sisterhood and decolonizing solidarity across borders of landscape and language from Palestine to Turtle Island, the Congo to Kashmir.
“Thank You for Your Tears, but I Don’t Want Your Sadness”
“Thank you for your tears, but I don’t want your sadness. Nor do I want your money. Please save that for the people in your own country who need it.
How The Combahee River Collective Got It’s Name
160 years ago on June 2nd, 1863, Harriet Tubman, along with 150 Black Union volunteers freed 750 enslaved people in the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina, U.S. More than
Sublime Anthology of Feminist Imagining
In 1981 Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga published a collection of writings by women of colour, a collective Moraga later refers to as ‘refugees of a world on fire’, with the
